Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.